Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecalis isolates from a Danish patient and two healthy human volunteers are possibly related to isolates from imported turkey meat

Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Volumn 62, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 844-845

  Agersø, Yvonne ^a   Lester, Camilla H ^b   Porsbo, Lone J ^a   Ørsted, Iben ^c   Emborg, Hanne Dorthe ^a   Olsen, Katharina E P ^b   Jensen, Lars B ^b   Heuer, Ole E ^a   Frimodt Møller, Niels ^b   Aarestrup, Frank M ^a   Hammerum, Anette M ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^b STATENS SERUM INSTITUT   (Denmark)

^c AALBORG UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Food animals; MLST; PFGE; VanA

Indexed keywords

AMPICILLIN; CEFTAZIDIME; ERYTHROMYCIN; SULFONAMIDE; TEICOPLANIN; TETRACYCLINE; TRIMETHOPRIM; VANCOMYCIN;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLOOD CULTURE; CHICKEN MEAT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CULTURE MEDIUM; DENMARK; ENTEROCOCCAL INFECTION; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FECES CULTURE; FEMALE; FOOD ANALYSIS; FOOD CONTAMINATION; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MULTILOCUS SEQUENCE TYPING; NONHUMAN; POULTRY; PULSED FIELD GEL ELECTROPHORESIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TURKEY (BIRD); VANCOMYCIN RESISTANT ENTEROCOCCUS; WHITE MEAT;

ANIMALS; DENMARK; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMAN EXPERIMENTATION; HUMANS; MALE; MEAT PRODUCTS; TURKEYS; VANCOMYCIN RESISTANCE;

EID: 52949096541     PISSN: 03057453     EISSN: 14602091     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/jac/dkn271     Document Type: Letter

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